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Owing to the large number of specimens received during the year 

 it has not been possible for the Department of Geology, as has usually 

 been the case, to complete within the year the cataloguing of all speci- 

 mens received. Nevertheless, a considerable portion of the work has 

 been done. To the card catalogue of the Department Library cards 

 have been added during the year corresponding in number to addi- 

 tional books received. The number of cards thus added is 516, making 

 the present total of the Departmental Library catalogue cards, 2,332, 

 To the Department photograph albums 128 prints, chiefly obtained by 

 the Museum expedition to Utah, have been received, making a total 

 of 2,500 prints now in these albums. A considerable amount of labor 

 has been performed by the Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Pale- 

 ontology in the direction of completion of records by identifying speci- 

 mens of invertebrate fossils previously catalogued but not identified. 

 About a thousand specimens of Tennessee fossil sponges and about one 

 hundred species contained in the Logan collection of Cretaceous fossils 

 have thus been identified and recorded. The principal work of labeling 

 has been that of the collections in Hall 67, marbles and building stones, 

 and Hall 70, coals and hydrocarbons. These collections have been 

 labeled throughout, the number of labels prepared and installed being 

 about four hundred for each hall. A number of these were large ^ 

 descriptive labels. Complete framed labels, twenty-eight in number, 

 were provided for the large specimens on bases in Hall 60. About sixty 

 labels have been printed and installed in Hall 68, clays and sands, and 

 for the remainder of the collection hand- written labels to the number 

 of about five hundred have been provided, so that use may be made of 

 the collection until printed labels are completed. Other miscellaneous 

 labels for the economic collections to the number of about sixty have 

 been printed, and about one hundred and fifty paleontological labels 

 chiefly for the fossil sponges of the Head collection. The total number 

 of printed label forms provided and distributed during the year was, 

 therefore, about one thousand. Copy for four hundred and seventy- 

 five labels was in addition prepared and has been placed in the hands 

 of the printer. 



Cataloguing and labeling of specimens in the Department of Zool- 

 ogy has been attended to so far as time and pressure of other business 

 would permit, but it has been only possible to do little more than keep 

 pace with new accessions in this work. Approximately 1,300 catalogue 

 entries have been made, including 660 in Mammalogy, 600 in Ornith- 

 ology, and 40 in Oology. Of the specimens thus catalogued, the mam- 

 mals have been recorded in the systematic card catalogue. 



